Don Hickey

Don Hickey is an award-winning author and a professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska. A longtime student of the War of 1812, he is best known for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (Bicentennial edition, 2012).

The burning of Washington DC by British troops during the War of 1812.

Why Americans Celebrate the Burning of Washington

The narrative we remember is how we beat back the British, not how close ou...

The narrative we remember is how we beat back the British, not how close our fledgling republic came to falling apart

Don Hickey

Why Americans Celebrate the Burning of Washington

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